Word: load
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning on a warm Saturday. New York City is asleep. But the crenellated red brick armory of the 101st Cavalry Squadron on Staten Island is busy. Hundreds of men in Army greens and black combat boots load trucks and Jeeps with weapons, tools, radios, medical gear. At 6:35 a.m., a 48-vehicle column rolls out, past the sleeping homes of Clove Lake Park, across the Goethals Bridge and into New Jersey. In twelve hours the 101st will reach Fort Drum on New York's border with Canada to begin its annual two-week summer training as scouts...
...dusk to work on into the night. Finally, a lonely light burns in the President's study, and the announcer says, "He's not finished yet." What the viewer is supposed to wonder, of course, is whether Reagan, who will be 70 in February, could handle the load...
Conscious of then-past problems, Atlanta Airport officials are already planning a fourth runway that will be ready for landings and takeoffs in 1983. By the year 2000, Hartsfield will be able to handle 75 million passengers a year, nearly double the present load. Even transfers to heaven or to hell should now be easier in Atlanta...
...Wary customers are still doing most of then" buying for cash rather than on credit. In California the Carter Hawley Hale chain reports that in the first half of the year there was a 2½% drop in credit sales. Consumers in June decreased their debt load by $3.46 billion, after a $3.43 billion drop in May. Any cash left over is now being stashed away in savings accounts. The level of savings, which was down to a paltry 3.5% of disposable income in January, has risen to 4.7%. Says William McDonald of Woodward & Lothrop, a Washington-based department store...
Meanwhile, police authorities presented the facts of the case to Mugabe, who ordered Tekere's arrest. The next morning, Chief Police Superintendent John Carse and other armed officers surrounded Tekere's heavily guarded estate in St. Martins, a suburb of Salisbury. They confiscated a load of weapons, and then engaged in a lengthy discussion with Tekere and his lawyer. At one point, Tekere strode jauntily over to share a joke with newsmen. Said he: "I'm just talking to my friends, the police. That...